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and geographical cHAs. CHAILLE LONG.
petition by only two soldiers and his SER
wants. The route of 500 miles south was
teeming with hostile savages, who had driven
the military expedition of Sir Samuel Baker,
few months before, out of the country. In
the face of this and other difficulties Chaille-
Long reached the capital of Uganda on the
Goth of June, 1874. His arrival was signal
lied by the sacrifice of thirty human beings,
he being the only white man, save Capt.
Spoke, who had ever visited Uganda. Chaille-
Long secured treaty by which King Mise
acknowledged himself vassal to Egypt.
After visiting the Lake Victoria, Chaille-
Long turned northward to trace the unknown
part of the Nile which still left the question
Of that rivers sources in doubt. Gen.
Gordon says in his report: "Those who care
to study the successive steps which built up
the map of the course of the Nile will know
that to Spoke is due the discovery of one por-
ton, to Baker that of another and TO Col
Long that of another and of the lake alluded
tor
For his success Col Chaille- Long was pro
noted to the full rank of colonel and hey,
and decorated with the cross of the Com.
mander Of the Medjidieh.
In January, 1875, Col. Chaille-Long fitted
out and led an expedition southwestward OF
the Nile into the Mann Mann country, sub
jected it to the authority of the Egyptian
government, and dispersed the slave trading
bands which he found there He discovered
and brought back with him Tiki-Tiki or
Aka woman, belonging to the dwarf races
southwest and west of the Nile and south OF
the fifth parallel, and has added greatly to
the knowledge of the anthropology of those
regions. On his return, in March, 1875,
Chaille-Long was ordered by Gen, Gordon to
proceed to Cairo, and with secret orders from
the Khedive he organized all expedition osten-
sibly to open All equatorial road from the In.
dian ocean along the Juba river to the central
Africa lakes. The expedition sailed from
Suez on the 10th of September, 1878, tool;
possession Of the coast and several fortified
towns extending from the Socotras to Kis
mayu, south of the equator, and occupied q
| fortified camp on the Juba river On the
capture of Kismayu, Chaille-Long found 45C
slaves held in bondage by the slave trading
governor of that place, and these were forth.
with emancipated. The expedition returned
to Egypt III April, 1876
On the LIST of September, 1877, Col. Chaille-
Long resigned his commission in the Egyp-
tian army, OH account Of persistent jungle
fevers, and returned to New York, where he
studied law at Columbia college. He returned
to Egypt in 1881 to practice before the inter.
national courts 1t was while engaged In his
new profession that the instruction of Arab
eliminated in the terrible massacre at Alex.
andria of the 18th Of June, 1882. The con.
sular officials leaving the city, Col Chaille.
Long accepted the post of danger at the re-
quest Of the American colonies OF Alexandria
and Cairo and of the United States govern
ment. The khedive conferred upon Col
Chaille- Long, in recognition of his services
| the cross of the Commander of the Osnianeh
The colonel removed to Paris in 1882. He
has published an interesting book Of travel
and volume entitled 'The Three Prophets
--Gordon, the Mahdi and Arab Pasha, '
Chaille-Long has contributed extensively to
journals and reviews, both in America and
France on political and scientific subjects
mainly pertaining to Egypt and Africa.